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Save the Children - Sri Lanka
Save the Children (SCF) works to achieve lasting benefits for children within the communities in which they live by influencing policy and practice based on its experience and study in different parts of the world. In all of its work SCF endeavours to make a reality of children's right; to help...
Care and Relief for the Young
Care and Relief for the Young (CRY) is a Christian charity dedicated to caring for disadvantaged, destitute and suffering children, young people and their families. CRY aims to rescue and restore young lives broken by poverty, oppression, exclusion, abuse, and to provide appropriate opportunities...
Challenges Worldwide
CWW will soon be launching new and diverse volunteering opportunities in Southern India. Placements are currently being developed in Kerala and Banglalore. They have met with many NGO's working in the areas of addressing the rights of working children, improving conditions for women in India,...
TravelAid
TravelAid is an Oxford-based, student run charity, working with grass-root NGOs in the developing world to alleviate poverty through education and social empowerment. The organization mediates between university students who would like to travel and volunteer during their summer and project sites...
Christina Noble Children's Foundation
The Christina Noble Children's Foundation is an international partnership of people dedicated to serving children in need of emergency and long-term medical care. The Foundation facilitates nutritional rehabilitation, educational opportunities, vocational training, job placement and the protection...
Volunteering in Peru
Volunteering in Peru (VP) is a volunteer work programme in Peru offering opportunities in hospitals, prisons, local homes and agricultural sites with children, streetchildren, the elderly and the mentally handicapped. VP provides accomodation and Spanish lessons.
Amauta Spanish School
AMAUTA Spanish School in South America offers the unique opportunity to study and learn the Spanish language while immersed in Latin American culture. Their experienced teachers utilize the most innovative pedagogies and emphasize interactive learning, a proven methodology for foreign language...
One World Trust
One World Trust aims to achieve the eradication of poverty, injustice and war. It conducts research on practical ways to make global organizations more responsive to the people they affect, and on how the rule of law can be applied equally to all. Its guiding vision is a world where all peoples...
Fédération Nigerienne des Personnes Handicapées (FNPH)
Fédération Nigerienne des Personnes Handicapées (FNPH), a national assembly of Disabled Peoples International, promotes the human rights of disabled people through their full civic participation and equalisation of opportunity and development.
Triodos Bank
Triodos Bank is one of the world's leading sustainable banks. Triodos connect savers and investors who want to change the world for the better with entrepreneurs and sustainable companies doing just that. We are the only specialist bank to offer integrated lending and investment opportunities in an...
SABR Trust Centre
The “SABR” Center is a non-profit, non-governmental organization whose mission is to improve the socio economic situation and protect the interests of the most vulnerable layers of society - women and children. We provide support, encouragement and opportunities to have an independent life in a...
Braille Without Borders (BWB)
Braille Without Borders (BWB) was founded with the determination to bring down the barriers of social exclusion that prevent blind people from playing a full role in society. BWB aims to literate blind people with the use of the Braille script so they gain access to literature and a vocation. The...
Landesa
Landesa is an international nonprofit organization working to secure land rights for the world's poorest people, those 3.4 billion chiefly rural people who live on less than $2 a day. The organization’s attorneys have helped tackle the land problem with great effect, using law and policy to confer...
ACCION
ACCION International is a non-profit that fights poverty through micro lending. It provides microcredit and training to micro enterprise entrepreneurs. ACCION also offers an internship programme that provides an opportunity to learn about microenterprise development.
Aschiana
Aschiana assesses the needs and promotes the welfare of vulnerable street working children and their families in accordance with basic child and human rights. Aschiana also provides services to create opportunities for developing life survival skills, basic education, literacy and numeracy, skills...
Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF)
Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF), an international fund company, aims to encourage entrepreneurs in emerging markets and help sustain the new economy. SEAF invests in small and medium size businesses that are unable to obtain long-term equity due to their size or location and provide...
Odamiyat Association
Odamiyat Association assists the poor, disabled and elderly in Dushanbe, with a particular focus upon veterans. Odamiyat runs a medical clinic, food bank and social club for veterans and helps find employment opportunities for elderly veterans who need additional income to supplement their pensions.
The Arc Mercer
The Arc Mercer is a private non-profit agency dedicated to reducing the incidence and limiting the consequences of developmental disabilities through prevention, education, and advocacy. Programs are provided for those who need them and opportunities for integration in the larger community are...
American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)
The American Near East Refugee Aid, ANERA, is an American NGO. Initially ANERA sought to help the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians by providing emergency relief. ANERA now also addresses the long-term economic and social needs of Palestinians, Lebanese and Jordanians through its...
Aga Khan Humanities Project (AKHP)
The Aga Khan Humanities Project (AKHP), headquartered in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, promotes pluralism in ideas, cultures, and people by supporting the development and implementation of innovative humanities curricula based on the cultural traditions of Central Asia. AKHP initiates and supports...